Universality for tropical and logarithmic maps
Algebraic Geometry
2026-05-27 v5 Combinatorics
Abstract
We prove that every toric monoid appears in a space of maps from tropical curves to an orthant. It follows that spaces of logarithmic maps to Artin fans exhibit arbitrary toric singularities: a virtual universality theorem for logarithmic maps to pairs. The target rank depends on the chosen singularity: we show that the cone over the 7-gon never appears in a space of maps to a rank 1 target. We obtain similar results for tropical maps to affine space.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2211.15719,
title = {Universality for tropical and logarithmic maps},
author = {Gabriel Corrigan and Navid Nabijou and Dan Simms},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.15719},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
22 pages. Comments welcome. v5: Minor changes